Co-SponsorsThe Center for Health, Science and Public Policy and The Hastings Center.

Registration and Continental Breakfast begin at 8:30am.

About the ProgramMore than two decades of research shows that poor and vulnerable children in America, including children in foster care, receive more psychotropic medications than other children their age. These medications may include complex drug combinations that are prescribed off-label and without adequate evidence of favorable benefit-risk ratios. The purpose of this roundtable is to better understand the significance of these patterns and disparities in the use of psychotropic medications, particularly antipsychotic drugs, among American children. Ultimately, the goal of this program is to identify changes in policy and practice that are likely to improve psychopharmacologic prescription practices among poor and vulnerable youth.

Co-Sponsors:Center for Health, Science and Public PolicyBrooklyn Law School’s Center for Health, Science and Public Policy strives to create an interdisciplinary venue where new ideas, policies and programs are generated. Each year, the Center hosts a variety of programs that examine the complex ethical, legal and socio-economic consequences of advancing technology. With the enthusiastic support of public health practitioners, lawyers, scholars, legislators, corporate leaders,judges, public policy makers, and students, the Center’s programs inform the public and encourage scholarship and research to improve the quality of health care services and the integrity of science.

This program is part of the Center’s ongoing series of theory-practice seminars in which scholars and practitioners have the opportunity to exchange ideas on important questions of health policy.

The Hastings CenterThe Hastings Center is a nonpartisan bioethics research institution dedicated to bioethics and the public interest since 1969. The Center is a pioneer in collaborative interdisciplinary research and dialogue on the ethical and social impact of advances in health care and the life sciences. The Center draws on a worldwide network of experts to frame and examineissues that inform professional practice, public conversation, and social policy

SpeakerJulie M. Zito, PhDProfessor of Pharmacoepidemiology and Psychopharmacology, University of Maryland Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine

Janice L. Cooper, PhDInterim Director, National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP); Assistant Professor of Clinical Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

John J. DiLallo, MDDirector, Psychotropic Medications Unit, Office of Child and Family Health, New York City Administration for Children’s Services

Marsha GarrisonSuzanne J. and Norman Miles Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Cynthia GodsoeInstructor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Michael K. Gusmano, PhDResearch Scholar, The Hastings Center

Myla Harrison, MD, MPHMedical Director, Bureau of Children, Youth, and Families, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene